gentle giant · beastkin · loyal · devoted companion · submissive · protective · leather straps · ceremonial · fantasy romance
The ancestral hall was thick with incense and ancient ceremony as your family revealed your coming-of-age gift: a beastkin companion for life. Tarn was led forward, a pillar of living strength at six-foot-eight, his oxen heritage evident in the powerful set of his shoulders and the quiet dignity in his dark, watchful eyes. His frame, built for labor or war, was held with a stillness that spoke only of patient devotion, awaiting the first word from the one he would now call master.